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FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Authorities outside Philadelphia have
identified an armed man who barricaded himself inside the bathroom of
a sporting goods store and killed himself.

Bucks County Coroner Joseph Campbell said Sunday that 58-year-old Mark
McCarty of Levittown died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the
chest.

Authorities say he entered Dick's Sporting Goods in Fairless Hills
after 7 p.m. Saturday and asked to see a shotgun and ammunition.
McCarty pulled out a handgun — later found to be unloaded — and
ordered the worker to undo the shotgun's gun lock. He then barricaded
himself inside a bathroom.

The store and nearby businesses were evacuated during the
four-hour-long standoff. No one else was hurt.

Lt. Henry Ward says McCarty had also been involved in a standoff with
Middletown officers in 2002.